Sunrise
F. W. Murnau
The light and darkness, good and evil, honesty and deceit, tradition and modernity, all the contradictions of modern society are found at Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, a film of 1927.
Sunrise is a melodrama that tells the story of a married man, George O'Brien, who lives in rural areas and who feels a fatal attraction to a woman of the city, Margaret Livingston, for whom decides that, to be with her, he has to kill his wife, featured by a great, sweet Janet Gaynor.
The director F.W. Murnau achieved a giant leap towards the evolution of cinematic language with this film.
The use of planes and sequences manage to provoke the viewer conflicting feelings that take you from laughter to tears in seconds. With all that the viewers feel naturally manipulated and sharing a love story as if they were looking through a peephole, an accomplice of how to move from joy to tragedy in an instant.
Sunrise is perhaps the most romantic movie of all time, and, despite being moved it has a unique strength in all planes. An evergreen classical movie.